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barely twice as long as broad, four short cells beneath it 



in fore wings, in hind wings two short cells and then a 



longer one. 



Described from two specimens from San Lazaro, Baja 



California. 



Mantispid^. 



Symphasis signata Hagen. 



Hagen, Stett. Entom. Zeit. 1877, p. 208. 



Two specimens, one from San Lazaro, the other, San 

 Jose del Cabo, Baja California. September. 



Chrysopid^. 

 Chrysopa externa Hagen. 



Hagen, Syn. Ne\u-opt. N. Am. 1861, p. 221. 



A single specimen from Tepic. October. 



Chrysopa perfecta nov. sp. 



Length 15 mm. Pale yellowish, a black stripe from 

 each eye to the mouth; palpi black; antenna shorter 

 than the wings, pubescent, whitish, slightly darker toward 

 the tips; prothorax nearly as long as broad, narrowed in 

 front, a large, elongate, rufous spot each side starting 

 from the anterior edge, but not reaching the posterior 

 margin; anterior lobe of mesothorax with a rufous spot 

 each side ; meso- and metathorax sometimes with a whitish 

 median stripe; legs whitish, white haired; abdomen yel- 

 lowish. Wings moderately slender, anterior pair scarcely 

 pointed at tips, the posterior pair more distinctly so; cos- 

 tal transversals black; most of the other transverse vein- 

 lets are fuscous at ends, and faintly margined with fus- 

 cous ; the veinlet connecting subcosta and radius is beyond 

 the fourth costal transversal; second cubital cell about 

 twice as long as broad, distinctly swollen on anterior mar- 

 o-in near base : third cubital cell with the division ending 

 a little beyond the first transversal to the radial sector; 



